Category: January-February 2024

INTERVIEW: Zachary Pace, Author of I Sing to Use the Waiting

This collection forms a mosaic of Zachary Pace as an individual along with the 1980s-2000s so familiar to many of us.

Before it was a scar, it was peanut butter.

… despite the evidence around me, the evidence I have co-created, a proposal feels abstract, far off.

There’s a guy at my dentist’s office named Daniel, a dental hygienist, who has been there for a long time….

At the top of my inhale, I wonder, is this the last one?

…I’m eleven years old and in the 5th grade. I live with my grandmother because my mother Marie cannot take care of me.

You’re a big horse, all eighteen hands of you.

The boy dazedly but dutifully stood up, following behind her down the stairs, unquestioningly.

Being short meant you couldn’t see over people who sat in front of you at the movies, and you didn’t stand out in a crowd.

At the Spin Society, the room is dark, the music cranked, the bass pulses.

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